Can Drew Gooden be a piece moving forward?

[tshafeez]

Gooden is the best we have

I don’t agree that he is. Tyrus has been better than him since November.

u cant be serious. If you were on a championship caliber team, who would u rather have on ur roster Gooden or Tyrus?

Gooden is 100x more consistent than Tyrus which is the whole point. He's the best we have.

[pduh01]

I honestly think that Drew Gooden can be a good bargain chip meaning a good trade bait. Probably not get something great in return but a decent in return.

I mean at this point he is a decent talent with a cheap contract and his contract is off the book this summer even though the bad thing is there is a reason why Drew Gooden is traded three times(I think.) and I can see why is that.

[BR0D1E86]

u cant be serious. If you were on a championship caliber team, who would u rather have on ur roster Gooden or Tyrus?

Gooden is 100x more consistent than Tyrus which is the whole point. He's the best we have.

Easily Tyrus Thomas, who has been pretty consistent for 2, closing in on 3 months now. Gooden is legendarily inconsistent. He’s also quite possibly the worst defensive big man in the NBA and has just about the worst splits of any player getting significant minutes in the NBA.

Drew Gooden is flat out terrible. I can’t wait until he’s on another team. This isn’t a ringing endorsement of Tyrus Thomas either, it’s a scathing review of Drew Gooden’s awfulness.

[Woody Allen]

He's probably the worst big men I've ever seen defensively. He's not a quality big, flawed or not, his overall game is just mediocre at best. If the Bulls sign him longterm, it means they have no vision whatsoever and we should all quit this team.

[tshafeez]

He's probably the worst big men I've ever seen defensively. He's not a quality big, flawed or not, his overall game is just mediocre at best. If the Bulls sign him longterm, it means they have no vision whatsoever and we should all quit this team.

A bit extreme. He is a poor all-around player, but he is an excellent role player.

Answer this: who would u rather have on your team, Gooden or Nocioni? Gooden or Thabo? Gooden or Noah?

So Noc, Thabo and Noah have no possibly long term role on this team? Role players

[DerrickRose16]

He's probably the worst big men I've ever seen defensively. He's not a quality big, flawed or not, his overall game is just mediocre at best. If the Bulls sign him longterm, it means they have no vision whatsoever and we should all quit this team.

A bit extreme. He is a poor all-around player, but he is an excellent role player.

Answer this: who would u rather have on your team, Gooden or Nocioni? Gooden or Thabo? Gooden or Noah?

So Noc, Thabo and Noah have no possibly long term role on this team? Role players

I would definitely rather have Noah and Thabo. Noah looks like he could become an elite rebounder/defender if he can add some bulk. He's been playing better defense recently and his rebounding is inconsistent because he gets pushed around too much and sometimes forgets to box out. If he can add some bulk he'll become infinitely more consistent and be able to defend the stronger big men.

As for Thabo, he's not offensively gifted, but he knows his role on offense. He back cuts for easy baskets, passes the ball well, and occasionally has a hot shooting night. On defense, when he feels compelled to give full effort, he is one of the best defenders in the league. The problem is, a lot of times because he doesn't get consistent minutes, he gives less effort because he feels it doesn't matter how hard he tries, we're just going to dump him on the bench next week.

If he were on a more offensively gifted team, say with a superstar talent like Kobe, Dwayne, or LeBron, where he could be on the court more consistently, I think he would become one of those very rare shutdown defenders in the era of hand check fouls.

I know the Bulls can score, but they are very inconsistent from night to night. On a team where they knew that one guys was going to give them 28 points a night, Thabo could start because they wouldn't need him to score. His 10 ppg per 36 minutes would be plenty next to a guy who puts up 28 a night. It would be the same as two guys on another team putting up 19 ppg.

[JOHN]

Drew Gooden is as bad as a big man you can find.No instincts whatsoever.he has some offensive moves Ill give him that.

Trade him while you can

[6_Rings]

best big man we can trade.

[Polynice4Pippen]

Gooden is the best we have

I don’t agree that he is. Tyrus has been better than him since November.

u cant be serious. If you were on a championship caliber team, who would u rather have on ur roster Gooden or Tyrus?

Gooden is 100x more consistent than Tyrus which is the whole point. He's the best we have.

Gooden isn't 100x more consistent than anyone at any walk of life. He's about as consistent as a leap year.

[kyrv]

Given our front court sucks and Gooden is the best we have, should Gooden be signed to a long term contract? He says he wants to stay a Bull... do you believe him?

No.